The Letters of Horace Walpole Fourth Earl of Orford Chronologically Arranged and Edited with Notes and Indices. In Sixteen Volumes with Portraits and Facsimiles Vol. XII: 1781-1783
by Horace Walpole; Paget Toynbee
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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STILLWATER, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Volume 12 only. xii, 455pp., (i). Ex-library, bound in original green cloth, with top-edges gilt and gilt lettering to spine. Several tiny bumps to extremities of boards and a few small bumps to edges of pages. Several chips and worn through areas to cloth. Front hinge mildly cracked. Text clean and binding remains mostly firm. A good, clean reading copy
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- Seller
- Henry Stachyra, Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 027942
- Title
- The Letters of Horace Walpole Fourth Earl of Orford Chronologically Arranged and Edited with Notes and Indices. In Sixteen Volumes with Portraits and Facsimiles Vol. XII: 1781-1783
- Author
- Horace Walpole; Paget Toynbee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- English Historian Men of Letters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Fiction/Poetry; English History;
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About the Seller
Henry Stachyra, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
STILLWATER, Minnesota
About Henry Stachyra, Bookseller
Welcome to Henry Stachyra, Bookseller. We are a family owned business, specializing in scholarly used, out-of-print and rare books. We bring 18 years of experience to buying and selling second-hand books. Our primary specialties are theology and philosophy, medieval studies and patristics. However, we also sell books in many other categories, especially scholarly.
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- Jacket
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- Hinge
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Cracked
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- Reading Copy
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